Done. John Altounji One size does not fit all. Social promotion ruined Education.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 9:20 AM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:51934] Re: 2013 Associated Press Stylebook Suggestions I would suggest that each member of this E-mail list cut the text of John's article and paste it into the box at the AP suggestion link that he gives. It will take only a minute. If AP gets enough of these, it might pay some attention to the suggestions. I just did that myself. ============ On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, John M. Steele wrote: > Once again, the AP is accepting suggestions for revision to their > stylebook. You can submit suggestions at: > http://www.apstylebook.com/?do=suggestions > > The AP is responsible for most of the metric errors in journalism. > Since the stylebook is wrong it requires journalists to make the > errors, or have their articles rejected. The elusive hope is that if > the stylebook could be corrected, the incident of metric errors by journalists would drop dramatically. > > Although I am no doubt beating a dead horse, I have again submitted my > three page paper on metric errors in the AP Stylebook. I originally > submitted it last year to the three editors by mail, and then via the suggestion form for the 2012 edition. I am 0/7 on the suggestions being accepted. > (I've attached a pdf copy of last year's paper.)
Metric Errors in the AP Stylebook.pdf
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